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A key House Republican is already challenging incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), warning that his strategy risks blowing Republicans' best chance to pass President-elect Donald Trump's tax bill, reported NBC News.

This comes a week after reports that Thune wants to split the budget reconciliation process into two parts: one bill to pass an immigration and energy package, and a second later to deal with taxes.

MAGA allies on Tuesday continued threats of jailing members of the House committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Chris Salcedo, who hosts a show on the right-wing Newsmax channel, interviewed Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on Tuesday, opening his segment by slamming "America last" Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, and Benny Thompson (D-MS).

A wildfire raged in Malibu on Tuesday, triggering thousands to flee, but some have refused to evacuate — and instead grabbed hold of their garden hoses, according to reports.

The Franklin fire broke out late Monday, prompting evacuation orders and school closures in the coastal, Southern California area, including across a wide stretch of the famed Pacific Coast Highway, The New York Times reported.

President-elect Donald Trump has named his choice to head the Federal Trade Commission, the agency that oversees antitrust law: Andrew Ferguson, a longtime Republican FTC commissioner who has already pledged to purge the institution of anyone disloyal to Trump.

"Andrew most recently served as Solicitor General of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Prior to Government service, he was an antitrust litigator at several Washington, D.C. law firms. He earned his undergraduate degree and law degree from the University of Virginia. Andrew also clerked for Judge Karen L. Henderson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas," Trump posted to Truth Social.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday said she believes that the brazen assassination of UnitedHealth's CEO could be the beginning of a political movement that sparks calls for socialized medicine.

The MAGA lawmaker’s latest conspiracy theory came during an appearance on the far-right Real America’s Voice platform, where she said past political movements have traditionally included tactics like marches, riots and storming politicians' offices.

The attorney representing suspected UnitedHealth CEO assassin Luigi Mangione told reporters in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday afternoon that he stands behind his client pleading not guilty — and has not seen any evidence tying him to the crime.

This comes even as Mangione was apprehended at a McDonald's after reportedly trying to use a fake ID, had a ghost gun and a manifesto that stated, "these parasites had it coming" and "it had to be done."

A man who leaped over a bench and beat a 62-year-old Las Vegas judge during a court appearance has been sentenced to decades in prison, according to a report.

Deobra Redden, 31, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to attempted murder in September stemming from the Jan. 3 attack on Las Vegas District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus.

Sen. Bernie Sanders won reelection last month and thinks this will be his last term, according to a report.

The fiery independent Vermont lawmaker, asked whether his fourth Senate term would be his last, told Politico: "I’m 83 now. I’ll be 89 when I get out of here. You can do the figuring. I don’t know, but I would assume, probably, yes."

Jim Comey, the former head of the FBI whose time was marked by his high-profile investigation of Hillary Clinton, delivered an impassioned message to his old colleagues on Tuesday night — and turned to philosopher Marcus Aurelius to do so.

Comey made the remarks in a post on his Instagram account, where he encouraged his former FBI colleagues to resist taking “anyone’s side,” and reminded them: “You will be okay in the long run.”

President-elect Donald Trump demanded that his $454 million civil fraud case be nullified after he was elected president, but the New York attorney general has rejected him.

Tristan Snell, former prosecutor for the New York attorney general's office, posted the update Tuesday evening on Bluesky, citing the refusal to stand down.

A Department of Homeland Security agent in Salt Lake City, Utah, has been arrested and faces federal charges of drug dealing, reported FOX13's Adam Herbets.

"David Cole is charged with dealing bath salts. There is another suspect in this case who is currently only being identified as PERSON A," reported Herbets. "A confidential source reported Cole and PERSON A, who also works as a special agent. The source says the bath salts came from HSI evidence. Prosecutors say they dealt bath salts once or twice a week starting in April 2024, profiting up to $300K."

In February 2024, the Hawaii Supreme Court was highly critical of views on the Second Amendment expressed by the U.S. Supreme Court's far-right justices. And two of those justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, expressed their indignation in an opinion released on Monday, December 9.

According to Slate legal expert Mark Joseph Stern, "It now appears the critique has gotten under some justices' skin. In an opinion on Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Samuel Alito, railed against the Hawaii Supreme Court's top-to-bottom evisceration of his own gun rights opinions. But Thomas and Alito protest too much: Their grousing is pure projection, accusing the Hawaii Supreme Court of committing the same sins at the heart of their own Second Amendment rulings."

Las Vegas telemarketing company chief Richard Zeitlin was given 10 years in prison after being found guilty of a fraudulent fundraising campaign he ran with computers that mimicked human voices.

Zeitlin tried to get money out of people for Vietnam veterans, police dogs, breast cancer victims, missing children, kids with cancer and disabled children, David A. Fahrenthold and Camille Baker reported in The New York Times.